"Deeply alarming": Anti-trans FDA nominee refuses to say Trump's untrue medical claims are wronghttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/deeply-alarming-anti-trans-fda-nominee-refuses-to-say-trumps-untrue-medical-claims-are-wrong/ 🔗Daniel Villarreal (24 Sep 2026)
Dr. Heidi Overton, Donald Trump's transphobic nominee for commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), avoided answering senators' questions on Thursday about whether she agrees with the Trump administration's numerous untrue medical claims, including claims that contraceptive intrauterine devices (IUDs) cause abortions.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) asked Overton twice if she agreed with the administration's claim, made last year, that IUDs are abortifacients (substances that intentionally induce abortions or miscarriages).
Overton avoided answering the question, leading Murray to say, "The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is outrageous and should be deeply alarming to all Americans."
In 2024, Overton wrote a Newsweek op-ed in which she criticized documents from the Biden-Harris administration using the transgender-inclusive term "birthing people" to refer to pregnant individuals. In the op-ed, she also claimed that left-wing scientists created the Journal of Adolescent Transgender Medicine (a publication that does not actually exist) to fabricate medical evidence supporting gender-affirming care for trans youth.
Overton also published a February 2023 document, entitled "Gender Transition Medications and Surgeries for Children in the U.S.," published by the right-wing America First Policy Institute (AFPI). The now-deleted report criticized the availability of gender-affirming medical care for trans youth in the US, characterizing the nation's laws as overly permissive.---------------------------------------
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